Matthew Specter
@matthewspecter.bsky.social
Historian of political ideas, Sr Fellow@UC Berkeley’s Institute European Studies;
lecturer @Santa Clara U; editor at HISTORY & THEORY; author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS (Stanford 2022), write on IR theory, 20th cent. Germany, transatlantic intellectual history
lecturer @Santa Clara U; editor at HISTORY & THEORY; author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS (Stanford 2022), write on IR theory, 20th cent. Germany, transatlantic intellectual history
Pleased to be presenting here in Berlin—program here: transatlantic-reason.info
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Pleased to be presenting here in Berlin—program here: transatlantic-reason.info
Presenting here at day 2 of a joyous gathering in honor of Hauke Brunkhorst’s 80th birthday, with other admirers of his work, from around the world.
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Presenting here at day 2 of a joyous gathering in honor of Hauke Brunkhorst’s 80th birthday, with other admirers of his work, from around the world.
Grateful to Mathias Albrecht of the Uni. Bielefeld for this invitation to speak in this lecture series tonight.
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Grateful to Mathias Albrecht of the Uni. Bielefeld for this invitation to speak in this lecture series tonight.
For the uninitiated, so to speak, hers a primer on the white supremacist/neo-Nazi symbolism referred to:
July 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For the uninitiated, so to speak, hers a primer on the white supremacist/neo-Nazi symbolism referred to:
Thank you @jackguenther.bsky.social for the generous review @histheory.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thank you @jackguenther.bsky.social for the generous review @histheory.bsky.social
A mirthful moment with Dissent editor Patrick Iber, Moira Birss of Climate & Community Initiative, and Zach Lou of Green New Deal Coalition. Thank you Clio’s Books for hosting our event!
June 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A mirthful moment with Dissent editor Patrick Iber, Moira Birss of Climate & Community Initiative, and Zach Lou of Green New Deal Coalition. Thank you Clio’s Books for hosting our event!
Great turnout for DISSENT last night at Clio’s Books in Oakland to discuss climate change, green social housing, public insurance to socialize climate risk to homes, and re-booting Green New Deal thinking @dissentmag.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great turnout for DISSENT last night at Clio’s Books in Oakland to discuss climate change, green social housing, public insurance to socialize climate risk to homes, and re-booting Green New Deal thinking @dissentmag.bsky.social
@dissentmag.bsky.social at Clio’s books www.cliosbooks.com 353 Grand Ave, in Oakland
June 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
@dissentmag.bsky.social at Clio’s books www.cliosbooks.com 353 Grand Ave, in Oakland
Need more dissent? Come here Dissent editor Patrick Iber moderate a conversation at Clio’s bookstore and cocktail bar, this Thursday at 7 pm, free admission, wine and snacks will be served!
June 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Need more dissent? Come here Dissent editor Patrick Iber moderate a conversation at Clio’s bookstore and cocktail bar, this Thursday at 7 pm, free admission, wine and snacks will be served!
Enjoyed talking realism, US foreign policy, and transatlantic intellectual transfer, with Ted Knudsen, creator of “Buzz-Kill,”(Spassbremse), a pod about German politics (check out their explainer in the upcoming German election too): open.spotify.com/episode/3q3n...
February 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Enjoyed talking realism, US foreign policy, and transatlantic intellectual transfer, with Ted Knudsen, creator of “Buzz-Kill,”(Spassbremse), a pod about German politics (check out their explainer in the upcoming German election too): open.spotify.com/episode/3q3n...
Next week at UC Berkeley #globalhistory
February 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Next week at UC Berkeley #globalhistory
“America First” has always had an Western hemispheric imperial dimension despite its restraint-ist accents—for background to Trump’s recent “manifesting” of his destiny see my essay with @varsha.bsky.social from @cambridgepress.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
“America First” has always had an Western hemispheric imperial dimension despite its restraint-ist accents—for background to Trump’s recent “manifesting” of his destiny see my essay with @varsha.bsky.social from @cambridgepress.bsky.social
Participating in a workshop on peace theory/Friedensforschung after the Zeitenwende next week with a distinguished group of experts and practitioners @vanjackson.bsky.social —read you this week on “peacecraft” 💪
December 7, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Participating in a workshop on peace theory/Friedensforschung after the Zeitenwende next week with a distinguished group of experts and practitioners @vanjackson.bsky.social —read you this week on “peacecraft” 💪
The rise to prominence of the slogan "America First" since Trump disinterred it in 2015 is stunning. I wrote about the history of the slogan since 1880 in a recently published volume from Cambridge UP! Check it out (in paperback):
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
July 19, 2024 at 6:39 PM
The rise to prominence of the slogan "America First" since Trump disinterred it in 2015 is stunning. I wrote about the history of the slogan since 1880 in a recently published volume from Cambridge UP! Check it out (in paperback):
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
It's been a busy two years since I published a book with Stanford UP on realism in international relations and IR theory:
February 8, 2024 at 5:59 AM
It's been a busy two years since I published a book with Stanford UP on realism in international relations and IR theory: